CELESTA AUNGM
Kang Lo Directorate
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.08.19 21:30:00 -
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 GREAT TOPIC for posting.
I know, it seems so obvious a situation, but it's still great to revisit and debate it more.
Beastlina, I like your POV and opinion. But the population is a LOT more varied than you might think, and their reasons are worthy of some understanding too.
Please go easy on us:
 Many of us are advanced players who, in addition to learning and progressing for ourselves, spent a LOT of time and frustration shopping for our Squads (you really DO have to SHOP). Some of these Squads are composed of players who it took a long time to locate, schedule with and rely on in order to erase the months of frustration trying to excel in the matches on one's own.
Taking on a novice or focusing on helping one, when he/she may only unintentionally slow you or cause another squad member to mouth on you for "stopping to help a noob" is going to be RARE.
I, Celest Aungm, would stop for you, or cover you, or support you any time... but the ironic revelation is that I'm not much a Squad-er, and the dozens of players like myself are the ones who WILL tend to support Newberrys, maybe because we AREN'T dedicated to squading so much and don't have so much to lose by reaching out to you. But to hope for reliable help from Squads in the match,... Beastlina, don't hope. Lots of them do care, but... it's hard to help and teach, AND still win the next objective.. It's just too hard.
Other squads are formed of even more militaristic mindsets---they are vets who settled in from other FPS games, and they take pride in being Delta-Force biased against "inadequate" players. "Inadequate" means even players like me, who may be good at playing the game, but are too-mellow-too-charitable-too-casual to be part of their serious gameplay.
This kind of mindset comes in squad-version or lone wolf-version, it's quite appropriate for the racial/ lore and war-mongering of the New Eden player environment, and is VERY useful for annihilating the enemy in Dust matches. But I just stay out of their way, and I try not to look to them to help me out of any jams. If they won't stop to help an advanced player, they surely won't stop to assist a novice---and they don't want EITHER of us trying to hitch up with them. Those guys are a HeartAttack (...glad to have them only when they're on MY side).
 What you have left on the map are the charitable but the very weak (other novice players who get sqoushed every time they try to help revive others or walk as your wingman and eventually unknowingly shoot at someone who responds by killing you both), the very unaware (novices who man our turrets, shoot at the MCC, and don't realize how HARD the return trip is to restock your ammo), and of course the players like myself, who are enthusiastic about the challenge of helping ANY novices we come across (we've built our fortunes, the pressure's off, and we're now just having fun in the game).
We're logi, and artificers, so we're good at spotting you Newberrys. As you can tell in some of the above posts, we WANT to help you guys out.  But (no insult to Newberrys) it IS very hard to do. There's a vehicle loss-cost and gear-cost attached to it, that we can somewhat absorb with our wealth, but not repeatedly every match. I look down on some disasterous battles from my DS now and then, and I say, I want to go down and rescue some of those players over there, but this is my last extra vehicle for the night--I'm all out... and they likely won't climb in, now that I'm trying to pick them up.
I know that sounds condescending and cruel... I don't mean to sound mean.
The game was meant to be played with lots of MIC work and constant talk to direct and alert and assist each other. That just didn't catch on with a lot of players, and there's no easy way to reliably help needy Newberrys without voice-communications, once the fighting starts.
I wrote a lot here that Vets and Newberrys may disgree with.
Universe of good wishes for the 49, especially CCP Eterne...
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